I made a name for myself playing a badass vampire slayer turned tough LA cheerleader I have worked with numerous leading men, including Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, even CBS’s own David Boreanaz. Dushku adds that her former co-star also routinely mocked previous sexual harassment training and rallied the crew against her, humiliating her publicly during an end-of-season wrap party.ĭushku writes that, after she approached Weatherly directly and asked for his help in de-sexualizing the atmosphere on set, he texted Caron and asked that she be written off the show, adding that she had a “humor deficit.”įor the record, I grew up in Boston with three older brothers and have generally been considered a tomboy. Per the Times story, Weatherly would say things like, “Here comes legs” when Dushku arrived on set for a scene, that he joked about having a threesome with her and that he once responded to her flubbing a line by saying he’d bend her over his knee and spank her. TWO decades of friendship and respect,” Perrette tweeted with a photo of her and Weatherly. Last week, Weatherly’s former NCIS colleagues Pauley Perrette and Sasha Alexander jumped to defend him, pledging their support for him on social media. “This man… I love, respect, trust, and I KNOW. Joel Kramer, the accused, was 36 at the time and has denied the allegations.Big Brother Recap: Who Became the Season’s Final Pre-Jury Evictee? In January, Dushku accused a stunt co-ordinator on the set of 1994 movie True Lies of sexually abusing her, when she was only 12 years old. She also made it a requirement that she get a sit-down meeting with legendary director Steven Spielberg, who runs Amblin Television, a co-producer of the show.Īs of this writing, the meeting has not happened, and Dushku says she hasn’t heard from Spielberg. She claims that she sought a “culture change” at CBS, and made sure that a condition of her settlement was that the network assigns someone with expertise in sexual harassment compliance to oversee Weatherly and the climate on the Bull set. READ MORE: Women-only Swedish music festival found guilty of discriminationĭushku insists that the millions of dollars she received was not “hush money,” but instead what she was owed for being jettisoned so easily and for the year of alleged abuse she suffered - not to mention the future income she lost by being removed from the show. He denied ever requesting or ordering Dushku’s departure from the show, even though Dushku voiced concerns to her representatives about potential repercussions for her reporting of the alleged harassment. After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza.” When Eliza told me that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humour, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized. He also issued an apology to the Times: “During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. Weatherly claimed that several of his remarks were based on lines in the Bull script, and he was just making off-the-cuff “jokes.”

READ MORE: Disney trademarks ‘hakuna matata,’ petition says it’s cultural appropriationĭushku claims that CBS executives had no idea that she was going to be fired, and it was all orchestrated and agreed upon by Caron and Weatherly.

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